Stop the Cuts - National Demonstration

Paid through taxes, not a graduate tax.

To be 100% honest, I think the proposed system of repayment is pretty great. I wish I had something similar on my £60k Canadian student debt. Instead it's treated like any other bill. The moment I'm 6 months out of school, interest and repayments begin.

I am not happy with the cuts, however, and I'm not happy with the middle-class knee-jerk reactionism to students getting pissed off.

This. Actually, I feel a lot more sympathy for the students and kids now than at the start (was somewhat ambivalent at the point of the Millbank march) - because of the way they have been treated on the ground and the reaction from government and populace.

I hate the way it's been packaged up - the fee-paying mechanism and amount, bundled with a change in principle in how HE is funded. So any and every discussion can be derailed.

And (extent of) youth services and FE cuts are just plain wrong.